Design Capabilities for the Pursuit of Innovation in an Academic Environment

TY - GEN

T1 - Design Capabilities for the Pursuit of Innovation in an Academic Environment

AU - Coulson, Saskia

AU - Woods, Melanie

N1 - Design in Action (DiA) was a £5m Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Knowledge Exchange Hub for the Creative Economy. The project was also awarded £400k from Creative Scotland to support small and medium enterprises to utilize design as a strategy for innovation, within and outwith the creative economy.

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - Design research is moving beyond the study of industry based practices and towards the stewardship of design-led innovation for business development and economic growth. To this end, it is now required to evidence the benefits it creates. To examine these notions further this paper presents an approach for design-led innovation within an academic context. The authors build on the concept of design capabilities to develop a framework of evaluation that provides a platform for which the impact and value of design to industry and the formation of diverse teams can be critically discussed. Furthermore, this study contributes to the burgeoning cognisance of design capabilities as a means to understand value, by indicating potential pathways towards yet further application of design research in the industry context. It closes with reflections presents how lessons from this study can contribute to future of university-industry partnership working.

AB - Design research is moving beyond the study of industry based practices and towards the stewardship of design-led innovation for business development and economic growth. To this end, it is now required to evidence the benefits it creates. To examine these notions further this paper presents an approach for design-led innovation within an academic context. The authors build on the concept of design capabilities to develop a framework of evaluation that provides a platform for which the impact and value of design to industry and the formation of diverse teams can be critically discussed. Furthermore, this study contributes to the burgeoning cognisance of design capabilities as a means to understand value, by indicating potential pathways towards yet further application of design research in the industry context. It closes with reflections presents how lessons from this study can contribute to future of university-industry partnership working.

KW - Design in Action

KW - Design Capabilities

KW - Knowledge Exchange

KW - University-Industry Partnership

UR - https://designinnovationmanagement.com/dma2017/

U2 - 10.21606/dma.2017.121

DO - 10.21606/dma.2017.121

M3 - Conference contribution

SN - 9781912294145

VL - 4

SP - 1513

EP - 1530

BT - Conference Proceedings of the Design Management Academy

A2 - Bohemia, Erik

A2 - de Bont, Cees

A2 - Holm, Lisbeth Svengren

PB - Design Research Society

CY - London

T2 - Design Management Academy 2017 Hong Kong

Y2 - 7 June 2017 through 9 June 2017

ER -